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Southeast Sulawesi (Indonesian: Sulawesi Tenggara, often abbreviated to Sultra), is a province on the island of Sulawesi, forming the southeastern peninsula of that island, together with a number of substantial offshore islands such as Buton, Muna, Kabaena and Wawonii (formerly called Wowoni), together with many smaller islands.
The province of Southeast Sulawesi (Sulawesi Tenggara) in Indonesia is divided into fifteen regencies (kabupaten) and two cities (kota), which together are subdivided in turn administratively into 219 districts (kecamatan). The districts of Southeast Sulawesi, with the regency or city each falls into, are as follows:
The Butonese (sometimes Butuni, Butung) people is a collective term that embraces a number of ethnic groups of Buton and neighbouring islands in Southeast Sulawesi.Like many other ethnic groups in Sulawesi, the Butonese are seafarers and traders. [1]
Sulawesi (/ ˌ s uː l ə ˈ w eɪ s i / SOO-lə-WAY-see), [1] also known as Celebes (/ ˈ s ɛ l ɪ b iː z, s ə ˈ l iː b iː z / SEL-ib-eez, sə-LEE-beez), [2] is an island in Indonesia.One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's 11th-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago.
Buton and surrounding islands. Buton (also Butung, Boeton or Button) is an island in Indonesia located off the southeast peninsula of Sulawesi.It covers roughly 4,727 square kilometers in area, or about the size of Madura; it is the 129th largest island in the world and Indonesia's 19th largest in area.
Konawe Regency was established pursuant to Law No 29 of 1959 (dated 4 July 1959) on the formation of second-level regions in Southeast Sulawesi with the name of Kendari Regency, with the capital being the city of Kendari.
Four years after that, with Act No. 13 of 1964, the provinces of South Sulawesi and Southeast Sulawesi were separated. Forty years later, the South Sulawesi government was split into two, with the regencies of Majene , Mamasa , Mamuju , Pasangkayu , and Polewali Mandar having been separated off to form a new West Sulawesi province on 5 October ...
South Sulawesi is located at 4°20'S 120°15'E and covers a land area of 45,330.55 square kilometres. The province is bordered by Central Sulawesi and West Sulawesi to the north, the Gulf of Bone and Southeast Sulawesi to the east, Makassar Strait to the west, and Flores Sea to the south.